Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has invited his newly elected Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Mursi, to a summit of Non-Aligned Movement nations to be held in Tehran in late August.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has invited his newly elected Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Mursi, to a summit of Non-Aligned Movement nations to be held in Tehran in late August, his presidency website said on Thursday.

"Your Excellency’s presence as the current head of the Non-Aligned Movement at Tehran's summit would be effective in progressing negotiations and decisions," Ahmadinejad was quoted telling Morsi by telephone.

"Egypt's role in this movement is undeniable, and constructive cooperation between Iran and Egypt in this movement can have many positive outcomes," he added.

The presidency website said that Mursi replied by saying he "hoped' to meet Ahmadinejad in the Tehran summit. It did not say when the telephone conversation took place.

The site quoted Morsi also saying: "The Non-Aligned Movement is an important meeting which is like an umbrella covering many Islamic and non-Islamic nations, and I hope to witness the realization this international organization's aims."

The Non-Aligned Movement is a grouping of nations that consider themselves independent of the world's major political blocs.

Ahmadinejad last month called for stronger ties between Iran and Egypt after Mursi's presidential election victory.

Diplomatic ties between the two countries have been cut for the past three decades, following Iran's Islamic revolution and Egypt's signing in 1980 of a peace pact with Iran's arch-foe the Zionist entity.

Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood politician who quit the powerful Islamist movement after his victory, became Egypt's first democratically elected president since the ouster of the pro-US leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011.